Myrmidon
noun
one of the warlike people of ancient Thessaly who accompanied Achilles to the Trojan War.
Myrmidons
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pluralof Myrmidon.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Aeschylus’s lost The Myrmidons also appeared to have had sexual and romantic love, between Achilles and Patroclus, at its heart.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 10, 2016
Grassy knolls teemed with minotaurs, cyborgs, warlocks, Myrmidons, figures clothed only in metallic body paint or Pan-like ivy tendrils.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2015
He is delighted to interrogate Charon, the boatman taking him across the Styx, wanting to find out more about what happened in Aeschylus' lost play, Myrmidons.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 24, 2010
One Homer served to immortalize the story of 100,000 Myrmidons before the city of Troy.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Myrmidons gazed at them with awe and a flame of fierce joy blazed in Achilles’ eyes as he put them on.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
